Class of 1895

Holden, as chairman of the selectmen of Hanover, is busy on plans for the new Ledyard bridge, which is to replace the time-honored covered bridge across the Connecticut river at the foot of the hill.

The September issue of Leisure contains an article on "Training Crickets" by F. E. Austin. He tells what "Sam Cricket" does with his spare time, gives interesting information about the fiddle "Sam Cricket" plays, and describes the technique the little insect has developed as a fiddler. His daughter, Maud N. (only child), teaches senior English in Roselle Park, N. J., High School.

"Bunker" Bishop is doing important work as business manager of Nation's Business in Washington. He lives at the Westchester Apartments. He expects to attend the class reunion next June. He has a son in Dartmouth. "Bunker" looks well and prosperous.

Joel Harley has two major hobbies. One is working in his garden and raising thousands of asters. He recently picked ten bunches of them and sent them to the General Hospital in his home city, Madison, Wis., to be distributed to patients. The other hobby is playing around with his granddaughter. He tells about it in verse as follows:

LET'S GO DOWN IN THE PARK

"When my little grandchild comesWe have a heap of fun;All work aside, we go and hideAnd then jump out and run;Then hide again and run againAnd have a merry lark,Till a little hand comes tugging:'Let's go down in the park.'

" 'Let's go down in the park,' says Joyce,'To see the baby bear,And feed the monkeys peanuts,The keeper there don't care;But Dixie, he must stay at home'Cause he'd be sure to bark,And come on, Grandpa,Let's go down in the park.'

"So hand in hand we wander,Happy as can be,Joyce in her early childhood,I in my second, maybe;But I think, sir, he's a-missingFrom life a noble spark,Who never hears his grandchild say:'Let's go down in the park.' "

Ernest Gile has been spending week-ends daring the summer at his ancestral farm in Lebanon, N. H. His daughter Eleanor and her husband spent part of the summer there also.

"Tommy" Thompson seems to have spent a pleasant summer at home in Salt Lake City. His son, Walcott Jr., and his family spent a month at home. Tommy's two daughters, Hildegarde and Dorothy, were at home also. He is a golf enthusiast and a duck shooter.

Editor, White River Jct., Vt.